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Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2008, 5:05 pm
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

That's not quite on point. The issue here isn't whether guns are associated with all violence -- clearly, they aren't, and nobody claimed that they were -- but whether guns help to increase the...
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2008, 4:41 pm
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

Guns obviously make it easier to perpetrate violence. That's why those who are in the business of committing violence use them.

You seem to believe that crime derives solely from intent, when it...
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2008, 4:00 pm
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

You cannot equate the situation in Switzerland with that in the US.

Most guns in Switzerland are issued to citizens by the military as part of the country's mandatory requirement for military...
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2008, 3:32 pm
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

Yet even in societies in which guns are illegal, you don't find many crimes perpetrated with bombs. They generally use other weapons, instead.

And because they often don't have guns at their...
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2008, 2:38 am
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

It's not a function of intent, but of the ability of the bad person to act. Guns make it easier for bad people to be worse, because they can exact or threaten consequences against their targets than...
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2008, 12:30 am
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

The statistical data does not support that position. There is a correlation between high levels of gun ownership and high levels of violent crime, which suggest that guns facilitate the commission...
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2008, 12:14 am
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

That is the point -- it isn't all that easy. It is substantially easier for people to kill with guns than it is to do the same with stones, or aerosol cans, or knives, or matches.

It is this...
Forum: USA
Feb 17th 2008, 11:01 pm
Replies: 168
Views: 7,130
Posted By RoadWarriorFromLP

Re: Nutjob Huckabee

I'm sorry, but that argument is a bit disingenuous. Obviously, the assault weapon makes the job of killing much easier and efficient than does an aerosol can.

If there wasn't an appreciable...
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